Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c1f6e318a9340fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-07 00:18:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e48e1f942b17f8c9a6330d5f8a637969 SHA-1: b894433035a8b072bca539c513952b20246db1b8 SHA-256: 8c1f6e318a9340fc64e7fd123d1db3e05e77d86361d8e6d53c17d0f3c2eb1bfb
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristics. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=annotated+bibliography+guidelines+pdf, which is presented to the user as a document title. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=annotated+bibliography+guidelines+pdf
    • http://files.williamtmohn.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437770/2004458.pdf
    • http://files.mrsmarcelleschoolofdance.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070336/6750567.pdf
    • http://files.veenalifestyle.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739101/xekububumezogefi.pdf
    • http://files.mayidesign.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740316/6655c292.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5181/0969/files/raxazavik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/dedifoniwupub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8393/2582/files/zejowubupiwix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9947/0486/files/nojorev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7264/3491/files/84420927275.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7220/0605/files/xugivisawixobizu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2160/6817/files/90884913884.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3255/8240/files/nezenipaginewofumifeperun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4130/8320/files/74008871100.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3468/1250/files/18788617779.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2705/4237/files/mibinipemojekopibok.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006845.bin
4ca761fe4398c9fb1075609d701df360be532690bcba5f5fd45c5b26f68f63f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6845 5532 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b12.bin
2890c185de42133b4aa480dc49b589e40df2428e8f577999cadcc6c1aa064076
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B12 9992 bytes